A69449:201
The doctrine & directions but more especially the practice and behaviour of a man…The doctrine & directions but more especially the practice and behavior of a man…
The doctrine & directions but more especially the practice and behaviour of a man in the act of the new birth A treatise by way of appendix to the former. By Isaac Ambrose, minister of Christ at Preston in Amounderness in Lancashire.The doctrine & directions but more especially the practice and behavior of a man in the act of the nevv birth A treatise by way of appendix to the former. By Isaac Ambrose, minister of Christ at Preston in Amounderness in Lancashire.
London: printed by J.F. for Nathanael Webb and William Grantham, 1650
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Fourthly, it draws virtue, and derives power from the Lord Jesus Christ for succour and supplies, and here is the especial life of Faith, it goes for mercy, and grace, and comfort in Christ, he knows 'tis to be had from him, and therefore he fetcheth all from him; With joy shall ye draw water out of the 1wells of salvation, Isa. 12. 3. The fountain of Salvation is Christ, and all the waters of life, of grace and mercy, are in Christ Jesus: Now it is not enough to let down the bucket into the well, but it must be drawn out also; it is not enough to come to Christ, but we must draw the water of grace from Christ to our selves; They shall suck and be satisfied (saith Isaiah) with the breasts of her consolations, that they may milk out, and be delighted with 2the abundance of her glory: The Church is compared to a child, and the breasts are the Promises of the Gospel; now the Elect must suck out, and be satisfied with it; the word in the Original is, Exact upon the Promise, and oppress the Promise: as the Oppressor grinds the face of a poor man, so with an holy kind of oppression, you should exact from the Promise, and get what good you may from it.
Fourthly, it draws vertue, and derives power from the Lord Jesus Christ for succor and supplies, and here is the especial life of Faith, it goes for mercy, and grace, and comfort in Christ, he knows 'tis to be had from him, and therefore he fetcheth all from him; With joy shall ye draw water out of the 1wells of salvation, Isa. 12. 3. The fountain of Salvation is Christ, and all the waters of life, of grace and mercy, are in Christ Jesus: Now it is not enough to let down the bucket into the well, but it must be drawn out also; it is not enough to come to Christ, but we must draw the water of grace from Christ to our selves; They shall suck and be satisfied (saith Isaiah) with the breasts of her consolations, that they may milk out, and be delighted with 2the abundance of her glory: The Church is compared to a childe, and the breasts are the Promises of the Gospel; now the Elect must suck out, and be satisfied with it; the word in the Original is, Exact upon the Promise, and oppress the Promise: as the Oppressor grindes the face of a poor man, so with an holy kinde of oppression, you should exact from the Promise, and get what good you may from it.